Richard III`s Bodies from Medieval England to Mo – Shakespeare and Disability H…

Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to ModernityShakespeare and Disability History\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey R. Wilson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439922668, 978-1439922668\nSynopsis\nRichard III will always be central to English disability history as both man and myth-a disabled medieval king made into a monster by his nations most important artist.\n\nIn Richard IIIs Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity, Jeffrey Wilson tracks disability over 500 years, from Richards own manuscripts, early Tudor propaganda, and x-rays of sixteenth-century paintings through Shakespeares soliloquies, into Samuel Johnsons editorial notes, the first play produced by an African American Theater company, Freudian psychoanalysis, and the rise of disability theater. For Wilson, the changing meanings of disability created through shifting perspectives in Shakespeares plays prefigure a series of modern att.